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tered upon a lawn, where not more than 

 twenty can be absolutely necessary. 



There is another defect common to 

 all countries where the grass land is more 

 generally mowed than fed. It proves 

 what no landscape painter ever doubted, 

 that a scene consisting of vegetable pro- 

 ductions only, can seldom make a pleas- 

 ing picture. The contrasted greens of 

 wood and laM'n are not sufficient to gra- 

 tify the eye; it requires other objects, 

 and those of different colours, such as 

 rocks, water, and cattle; but where these 

 natural objects cannot easily be had, the 

 variety may be obtained by artificial 

 means, such as a building, a tent, or a 

 road ; and, perhaps, there is no object 

 more useful in such countries than a 

 gravel road of a good colour, gracefully 

 winding between, and of course defining 

 those gentle swells of the ground, which 

 are hardly perceptible from the uniform 

 colour of grass land. 



A scene, however beautiful in itself, objects in 

 Avill soon lose its interest, unless it is en- ^^"*"'"- 

 livened by moving objects; and from the 



